Protecting children - Culture needs to change as well as laws

IN recent days we’ve had two examples of the terrible contradictions and hypocrisy we tolerate surrounding child protection.

The huge chasm between what we say, what we promise and preach, what we intend and what we achieve was exposed and shown for what it is yet again. Even though this is not by any means the first time these failings have been laid bare, it is reassuring that they still have the capacity to shock and cause outrage.

The seeds of some sort of redemption, some sort of effective protection system, lie deep within that outrage but it is up to us to turn that anger into something worthy. Something that means our children can go to school without being groomed by a convicted sex offender masquerading as the school caretaker.